Featured Guests
Paul Lansky
One of the most prominent and accessible of modern American composers who writes primarily for the medium of computer-generated sound, Paul Lansky has been composing almost exclusively in this genre since the late 1970s. He is fascinated with the sounds of the human voice and uses the computer as what he calls an “aural microscope” to explore this world and to recreate it in his music. More recently Lansky has turned to other human sounds in his pieces—the ambient sounds of shopping malls and highways, for example. His music has been widely heard and performed in the United States, Europe and Australia, and has been used extensively by dance troupes, including Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company. Lansky is on the faculty at Princeton University.

Ellen Sandor
A pioneering artist in digital imaging and a leading artist in new media, Ellen Sandor is the founding artist and director of (art)ⁿ. In 1983 she produced the first large scale, digitally immersive environment, titled PHSCologram '83. Sandor's work catalyzed the evolution of photographic documentation into time-based environments and the fine arts applications of virtual reality. She has also collaborated with scientists at NASA, JPL, the Scripps Institute and others.

Sandor's works are in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), International Center of Photography (New York), The Smithsonian Institution, The U.S. Art in Embassies Program and various private
collections. Group and solo shows include The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), The George Eastman International House of Photography, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, Computer Museum (Boston), Musée d'Art Contemporian de Montréal and Galerie Darthea Speyer (Paris).

Other Guests
Dan Welcher
Born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1948, composer-conductor Dan Welcher first trained as a pianist and bassoonist, earning degrees from Eastman and the Manhattan School of Music. He currently teaches composition and orchestration, and serves as director of the New Music Ensemble and the Opera Theater at the University of Texas in Austin. As a conductor, Welcher has made guest appearances with a number of leading professional orchestras and ensembles in the United States, and served as assistant conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra from 1980 until 1990.

With over 80 compositions to his credit, more than half of which are published, Welcher has written in virtually every medium. His orchestral music has been performed by more than 50 orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Winner of numerous awards and prizes, he has received commissions from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Guggenheim Foundation for the Rochester Philharmonic and the Utah Symphony, and has served as composer in residence with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra.

Gita Hashemi
Gita Hashemi left Iran in 1984, after having been expelled from the university as a result of her dissident political views and activities. Her journey took her to Japan, the United States and finally to an active role in the Toronto arts community for the past 10 years.

Hashemi maintains a multidisciplinary artistic practice with a strong feminist orientation that includes film and theatre set design as well as digital production. She has served on the boards of A Space, Diversi Film and Video Fund, and InterAccess in Toronto. She co-curated Trans/Planting, a multidisciplinary exhibition of art by women from/in Iran, and is the founder of Iranian Artists in Dialogue.

subRosa
The group's name honors feminist pioneers in art, activism, labor and politics: Rosa Bonheur, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosie the Riveter and Rosa Parks. A reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers, subRosa is committed to combining art, activism and politics to explore and critique the effects of the intersections of the new information and biotechnologies on women's bodies, lives and work. The group produces artworks, activist campaigns and projects, sneak attacks, publications, media interventions and public forums that make visible the effects of the interconnections of technology, gender and difference; feminism and global capital; new bio and medical technologies and women's health; and the changed conditions of labor and reproduction for women in the integrated circuit. subRosa practices a situational embodied feminist politics nourished by conviviality, self-determination and the desire for affirmative alliances and coalitions.

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